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Venice: Gaspare Storti, 1782. Fine Binding. First Edition. 8vo. 195 x 120 mm. (7 ½ x 5 inches). (2), 144, (2) pp.Giovanni Battista Gherado d’Arco (1739-1791), was born and educated in the north of Italy in the territory known as the Southern Tyrol, near the city of Trento. He moved..... More
Firenze: Tipi della Galileiana, 1845. 8vo. 232 x 152 mm. (9 x 6 inches). vii, [1], 268 pp. Bound in modern calf over marbled paper boards. Text uncut and unopened; some light foxed throughout, and one tiny wormhole affected the upper corner of pages 163-268. First edition of the Marchese..... More
Milano: Dalla Società Tipog. De’Classici Italiani, 1847. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm. (7 ½ X 5 inches). 107, 1 pp., one folding plate with four figures. Early 20th century decorated paper over boards, leather label of Rappaport of Rome. Rare manual of bee keeping by a provincial cleric, educated at..... More
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(Rome): (Carlo Labruzzi), 1796. Folio. 415 x 302 mm. (16 ¼ x 11 ½ inches). 13 full-page etchings printed in sanguine on laid paper, each plate with a loosely inserted guard sheet (also of laid paper) with 5 dark pencil points marked as guides to the artists. Early 19th-century red..... More
Lucca: Giovanni Riccomini, 1767. 8vo. 203 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/4 inches). 32 pp. Engraved title-page vignette of a putti and a dolphin; two woodcut decorative initial letters, head- and tail-pieces of putti and designed backgrounds. Original red Italian decorative paper wrappers; remnants of a paper label on..... More
Bologna: Per le Stampe di Jacopo Marsigli ai Celestini, 1797. 8vo. 205 x 130 mm. (8 x 5 ¼ inches) 60 pp. Rare pamphlet written a year after the French occupation and the establishment of Bologna as the capital of the short-lived Cisalpine Republic, a confederation of northern Italian cities..... More
Firenze: Niccolo Carli, 1811. 8vo. 215 x 141 mm. (8 ½ x 6 inches). xl, 240 pp. Modern blue wrappers; some light foxing, title-page with light staining. First edition. A history of the printing press established by Lorenzo Torrentino, who printed in Florence from 1547 to 1565..... More
Pavia: nella Stamp. Bolzani, 1792. 8vo. 220 x 140 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). [2], 291, [1] pp. Original blue paper wrappers; some soiling and expert repair to spine of wrappers; otherwise sound and attractive copy in original wrappers. Only edition of Antonio Mussi's study of Hebrew using..... More
New York: Printed by James Van Norden, 1838. 8vo. 220 x 140 mm., (8 ¾ x 5 ½ inches). xxviii, 328 pp., plus 8 pp. of by-laws pinned to the final blank. Publisher’s cloth, leather label; cloth shows some wear, label faded, otherwise sound and attractive. The New York..... More
Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1769. 8vo. 170x 110 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). [4], 279, [1], 24 pp. 18th century Dutch decorative paper boards; spine and joints rubbed, otherwise a sound copy. First edition in French, originally appearing in Villafranca (i.e. Venice) in 1767. Educated in the law at..... More
Firenze: Grazioli, 1791. Small 4to. 175 x 125 mm (7 x 4 ¾ inches). 99 pp. Illustrated with a hand colored engraving designed by Giuseppe Piattoli and engraved by Vascellini. Later decorated paste paper boards. Very good copy. Rare first edition. Very attractive copy of Rastrelli’s poem that satirizes..... More
London: Printed for and by William Savage, 1809-09. Three volumes, plus the first part of volume four, No. 19. 8vo. 218 x 130 mm., (8 x 5 inches). iv, 236, [2] plus 2 engraved plates; iv, 286, [2] pp., iv, 286 pp.; 48 pp. Bound in full English calf, decorated..... More
